CVE-2026-97521

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gfs2: fix quota init duplicate scan

gfs2_quota_init() checks for duplicate quota_change IDs while holding qd_lock and the quota hash bucket bitlock. That path used gfs2_qd_search_bucket(), which takes a lockref reference via lockref_get_not_dead().

On PREEMPT_RT this may sleep, which is not allowed under the bucket bitlock, triggering “sleeping function called from invalid context”.

Use a no-ref bucket lookup in this path, then continue duplicate handling without taking a lockref there.

Refactor gfs2_qd_search_bucket() to build on top of the no-ref helper so lookup traversal stays in one place.

This patch fixes a bug reported by syzbot.

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS

Affected packages:

linux @ 5.10.259 (+14 more)

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.